Thursday, June 30, 2016

'Hit the Share Button': Maryland Sisters-In-Law Work to Find Missing People of Color

 Natalie Wilson and Derrica Wilson

Tamika Huston vanished in 2004, one year before Natalee Holloway. 

Both women disappeared under mysterious circumstances: Holloway, 18, during a high school graduation trip to Aruba; Huston, 24, from her home in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

But only Holloway became a household name. Her story dominated national headlines and was even turned into a television movie. 

Huston's family, meanwhile, begged media organizations to cover her case. And while local media outlets in Spartanburg picked up her story, Huston's family could not get her case the widespread attention they knew it deserved. 

"I couldn't understand why I wasn't even getting, you know, 'Thank you very much, but we're not interested in this story at this time,'" Huston's aunt, Rebkah Howard, told NBC News in 2005

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Source: NBC News 

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